For Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry
12th (2007) Current Recipient: KATHY BATES
 Oscar(R) winner Kathy Bates received the IPA’s prestigious Mary Pickford Award For Outstanding Artistic Contributions to the Entertainment Industry, presented at the 12th Annual Satellite Awards, December 16, 2007, in Beverly Hills, CA.
The Pickford award is named for the early pioneer of the film industry who began her career as a child actress and went on to become "America's Sweetheart" and a co-founder of United Artists Studios with fellow filmmakers Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith.
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11th (2006) Recipient: MARTIN LANDAU
Legendary actor Martin Landau received the International Press Academy's prestigious Mary Pickford Award For Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry in 2006.
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10th (2005) Recipient: GENA ROWLANDS
Renowned actress Gena Rowlands received the International Press Academy's prestigious Mary Pickford Award For Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry in 2005.
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Past Recipients by IPA year:
10th (2005): Gena Rowlands
9th (2004): Susan Sarandon
8th (2003): Arnon Milchan
7th (2002): Robert Evans
6th (2001): Karl Malden
5th (2000): Francis Ford Coppola
4th (1999): Maximilian Schell
3rd (1998): Alan J. Pakula
2nd (1997): Jodie Foster
1st (1996): Rod Steiger
Profile:
The Mary Pickford Foundation, under the auspices of CFO Keith Lawrence, has authorized the International Press Academy (IPA) to permanently name its "Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment Industry" after the acclaimed star once known as "The Girl with the Golden Hair."
A child star of stage and screen, Mary Pickford was a pioneer of the early film industry. Beginning her career in cinema during the silent era at D.W. Griffith's Biograph Pictures (1909), Mary Pickford would become the most popular star in screen history.
Despite her petite, girl-like persona, Mary Pickford was a dominant force: a talented actress and shrewd business-person whose concerns extended across all aspects of the fledgling film industry. She was one of the first stars to move from company-to-company building not only her own stature with each international success, but solidifying the importance of the actor in the process of creating meaningful cinema.
Pickford helped create the "star system", demanding screen credit for artist, as well as authority over scripts, co-stars and directors. As astute business woman, in 1919, Pickford and contemporaries Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks formed the United Artist Corporation, a pioneering studio that influences the industry to this day.
"The Pickford name has long been coveted by industry organizations as a defining mark of excellence", says IPA board member Tim Cogshell.
"For the International Press Academy to be given the sole right to name our Award of Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry after the legendary Mary Pickford is an amazing honor not only for our organization, but for all future recipients. We at IPA could not be more pleased."
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